The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-07-29
THE NORTHWEST.

MOSCOW, l. IL, has been incorporates.
Wheat OF this years crop il already
arriving in Walla WaIla.
; Multnomah county, Or, pays $40
each for coyote scalps.
Arrests for drunkenness and general
cussedness average AZ day at Spokane
Falls.
Pete Grant and Ed Rea ran foot
race 100 yards, mt Astoria, for 81 200.
The race was tie.
At Stella, w. r., the l1-year-old son
of Mr.. Clark, was playing changing
and stranglcd himself TO death.
Richard Swartz, whose mill on How
ell prairie was recently burned down,
has commenced its reconstruction.
The death rate in Walla Walla the
past year was 10 to every 1000 inhabi-
tants. There were twice as many
births as deaths-52 boys and 81 girls.
Railroad builders ON the Sound talk
of importing 1000 negroes from the
east and south to work on the roads.
Labor is very scarce OH the Sound.
The Walla Walla Journal reports
that Chris. Maier's 500 acres will av-
erage 60 bushels of wheat per acre, and
other farms in the vicinity nearly the
same.
Archie Lawyer and other Indian
preachers from the Lapwai agency
have gone to the Crow agency to es-
tablish schools and churches, under
authority of the government.
| sTrhe bicycle law of Oregon requires
bicycle riders 10 stop 100 yards from
any person going in the opposite di-
rection with Il team, and remain sta
tionary until the team shall have
passed.
An old man named O'Connor, nearly
so years of age, and living at the coun-
ty farm, was walking on the railroad
track, near Seattle July u, and did not
notice the train approaching. He was
killed.
! At Dayton last week, several chill
dren found railroad signal bomb, and
DIR. Days little boy struck 1t with an
iron bar, causing it to explode, bury
T! ing piece of the tin boy deep in the
child's breast.
John Robb, of Philadelphia, has been
at Tacoma for several days. Mr..
Robb is an old lumberman and is max
I ing arrangements for the shipment OF
! lumber from Tacoma TO Eastern states
by the rail system.
The sum of $4,000 is being raised by
the citizens of Roseburg, to go as a
/ bonus to capitalists who are to erect a
S75,000 WOODEN mill at that point. Mr..
Aaron Rose has donated site and nm
limited water power.
/: The height of Mt. Hood is not posi-
/ lively known, and is estimated all the
way from 12,7O0 to 10, 400 feet The
generally accepted height is 1900 feet
The Z. S. typographical engineers will
I probably measure it this fall.
j. E Sheppard, manager of the Ore
gon immigration bureau, says the inn
migration to Oregon and Washington
is heavier at the present time than evel
before. The newcomers are said to bt
nearly all possessed of some means.
1t is not generally understood say,
the Tacoma Ledger, that the PuyaIluI
Indians were granted by an act of con
gress at its last session, the right o
equal suffrage with the whites. Many
of the Indians are expected to vote a
the coming election in November.
Repetta, an Oregon runner, belong
ing to Matlock Bros, won a race, mil,
heats, best two in three, mt Niagar;
Falls, New York, on July 4th, captur
ing the prize of 800. There were nin'
starters. Repetta won the first heat b!
a length and the third by four lengths
Time 1:44I.
On the 18th at meeting of the direc
tors of the o. R. & y. Co. the followin,
officers were elected: President, Eli
jah Smith; vice-president, Thos. J. Pot
ter; second vice-president, w. S. Ladd
secretary and assistant treasurer, Thee
dore Wygant; treasurer and assistan
secretary, Chas. T. Smith; comptroller
L. B. Wiley.
Last Thursday, near Spokane Falls
Carl Jensen, of Chenny, while on
walking, met four tramps, who begge'
for quarter. to buy food. Jensen pro
duced the money, when the whole out
fit jumped on him and robbed him @
S25. Three of them got away, but tn
victim held to one of the tramps am